Employee #1 (Part Two)

How did Breitbart News become so influential? In Part Two, we conclude the story of Alex Marlow, the New Media pioneer’s Editor-in-Chief…and along the way, we hear exclusively from the top voices within the conservative media powerhouse.

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Speaker 3 (01:05):
That was one of the biggest media scandals ever. I
realized that when I win a debate and then get attacked,
it makes me.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Hungry pound for pound. It's undeniable that Breitbart News is
the most influential media outlet in America.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
And they had a speaker by the name of Andrew Breitbart.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Give your children extra one hundred dollars per month for beer.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
And the legacy of the Acorn story is not just
the rise of James O'Keefe, the rise of Breitbart, the
destruction of Acorn. It is the beginning of the end
of the establishment media as gospel.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
How did Breiitbart News become so influential. I'm Patrick Carelci.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
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Speaker 1 (01:53):
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Speaker 2 (01:57):
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Speaker 5 (02:03):
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Speaker 1 (02:11):
You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. We're at part two of our series

(02:35):
of episodes entitled Employee Number One. You've probably heard part one,
but if you haven't, stopped and go back and listen
from the beginning. We're telling the story of how Breitbart
News became so influential by following the rise of its
editor in chief, Alex Marlowe. So in part one we
heard that Alex was seeped in far left ideology from

(02:56):
a young age. He grew up in liberal La, La Land,
attended a private high school populated with the elite of
Holly Woods Elite, then graduated from UC Berkeley, practically the
headquarters of the institutional Left. While in college, he met
a charismatic new media entrepreneur named Andrew Breitbart and became
employee number one of his startup, Breitbart News in two

(03:18):
thousand and nine. There a small team worked to expand
the company by launching Big Hollywood, Breitbart News' first foray
into original content, and they brought on board an editor
in chief for the site named John Nolty. The company's
first big scoop was a story developed by Your Humble
hosts about the Obama administration's attempt at creating a propaganda
machine out of the NEA, but its first blockbuster story

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followed roughly two weeks later, with the launch of James
o'keeth's Acornsting through these stories, Andrew developed a method to
bypass the mainstream media gatekeepers, and Alex was receiving a
crash course from one of the best that ever lived.
But the success of Andrew and his team of renegade
journalists put targets on their back, and they were about

(04:03):
to learn just how much the far left media wanted
to shut them down. John Nolty remembers the media's disdained
for Andrew in those early years, and I think.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
His effectiveness of rolling out the Acorn thing freaked them
out because they knew they were up against a real talent,
a guy who knew how to do this, which is
just as important as the story. And the end your
Anya story scared him too, because that was another effective story.
You know, you would record it as you nailed them clean,
and there was no way they could get out of it.
And that stuff, it was so consequential and made such

(04:41):
a difference that they knew that Andrew was a star,
that he knew what he was doing, and they wanted
to They wanted to strangle him in the crib.

Speaker 7 (04:49):
And that's when the attacks truly began.

Speaker 6 (04:51):
And then this surely Sharrod thing happened, which was a
totally unfair attack on us and that's when they tried
to put us out of business. So the attacks were
they were brutal.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
At every turn. The media were to paint Andrew In
his fledgling new media organization as intentionally inaccurate, even racist.
For the better part of the next year and a half,
it was a full court press.

Speaker 8 (05:16):
No concern from self to make allegations about other people.

Speaker 6 (05:20):
Pretend they're sort of creating the people's journalism.

Speaker 9 (05:23):
They don't even know what it is, they have.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
No respect for it.

Speaker 8 (05:25):
Depending on your view, he's also been described as a
conservative propagandist.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
Not a journalist or a commentator.

Speaker 10 (05:32):
You're a con man. Let me tell you what you
just did.

Speaker 7 (05:34):
You use a cold language.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
The Black studies people right.

Speaker 11 (05:37):
In other words, you yourself have been up to skulldugree
before you know you stitched up Shirley Sheryl pretty spectaculate.

Speaker 9 (05:44):
You think, wow, I think.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
He's so vicious. Yes, I do.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
The news industry, overwhelmingly left leaning, was trying to crush
Andrew In his company, and it was becoming apparent to
the Breitbart News team that any vulnerability in a story
they published would be under intense scrutiny and sifted through
for any possible ambiguity that could be unfairly exploited. This

(06:09):
was the environment that Breitbart News was enduring after their
initial scoops. So as Memorial Day weekend twenty eleven approached,
the media smears continued. But what the gatekeepers didn't know
was that Breitbart News was getting ready to dunk on
the old guard and start a chain reaction that would
change the course of history, and the event would mark
a seminal moment in the career of Alex Marlowe.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
As the media was attempting to put Breitbart News out
of business, one Democrat had been building a reputation as
a feisty congressman from New York. His name was Anthony Weiner,
and he cemented that narrative in his speech on the
floor of the House, animists.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
If it gets up in yellow fight, if is going
to intimidate people who believing is right, he is raw.
The gentleman is raw.

Speaker 9 (06:53):
The gentleman is providing cover for his colleagues.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Rather than doing the right thing.

Speaker 12 (06:58):
It's Republicans wrapping their arms around Republicans rather than doing
the right thing.

Speaker 5 (07:02):
On behalf of the heroes.

Speaker 13 (07:03):
It is a shame, a shame.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Wiener was the Alexandria Ocassio Cortes of his time. The
talk was that someday he'd become the Mayor of New
York City, largely because of who he was connected to.
Wiener was married to Huma Aberdeen, Hillary Clinton's longtime confidante
and personal assistant. Former President Bill Clinton even officiated their wedding.

(07:32):
So as Memorial Day weekend twenty eleven kicked off, Anthony
Wiener was a big deal, But there was someone behind
the scenes at Breitbart News that was also coming into
his own. Just a few weeks earlier, Andrew Breitbart published
his book Righteous Indignation and said that Alex Marlowe was
quote arguably the most important person in the entire operation

(07:53):
end quote, and employee number one was about to cross
paths with Wiener.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
And we had just been to I think it was
the hangover to and we came home and my email
was filled with all these crazy emails about how Anthony Wiener,
the congressman, had texted a picture of gray jockey shorts
with a prominent bulch in them. He had tweeted that
out and then immediately deleted it and announced that he

(08:21):
was hacked, and people were sending Andrew the screen caps
and saying this really happened, though it had been deleted
from the Internet and things weren't captured quite as easily
at the time, so it was we weren't one hundred
percent sure if it was real because it was gone
and it was hard to check right away had this
been tweeted, because Twitter was not as big as it

(08:45):
is it is now.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
By the time Alex walked through his front door, a
small group of his colleagues were already exchanging emails about
this rumor at a heated pace. So Alex went on
the hunt.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
And I'm looking around and using my internet fluting skills,
and I'm pretty sure that the tweet was real. And
we're all pretty sure that the tweet is real, really happened, and.

Speaker 7 (09:10):
No one's publishing anything on it.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
And it had been probably an hour or two, and
we were making a calculation and the small group of
us including Larry and Andrew and a couple of the
other editors, and we're going through whether or not to
publish a story on this again.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
John Nealty, we were all on the phone and just
trying to make sure we got the story right. Just
we got to get this story right.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
And we've never done a sex scandal, and we don't
want to do sex scandal, and this is.

Speaker 7 (09:41):
Going to look like a sex scandal.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
And Andrew was never Andrew stock and Trade. He's never
why he got into this. He's not a tabloid guy.
But there was something that we all started to fixate on,
and I was very vocal about this that him tweeting
that he was hacked was a massive problem. Because if

(10:03):
a hacker is hacking into accounts of the United States
congress people and tweeting porn or soft porn, light porn,
everyoneanna call it tweeting pictures of genitals, that is a story.
That is not a sex story. That is a cybersecurity
story now, and so we published.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
The headline read quote Wienergate congressman claims Facebook hacked as
lude photo hits Twitter.

Speaker 6 (10:29):
And we released it and it was totally clean, everything
was it was perfect. It was a perfect reporting.

Speaker 5 (10:38):
This is what he did.

Speaker 6 (10:41):
He sent out this picture and then he claimed he
was hacked, and that's all we reported.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Now, the mainstream media has a long established strategy. When
story is critical of Democrats first sprout in the old days,
journalists would just ignore them. But with the rise of
new media, they were forced to design a new tactic.

Speaker 7 (11:03):
They started to attack Andrew, which was their playbook.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
They started to attack Breitbart, which is their playbook, and
they start shooting the messenger and acting as though Wiener
is the victim of all this.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
This role is initially taken on by far left websites,
so the story never even has to make an appearance
on cable news by the Saturday morning of Memorial Day weekend.
This process was set in motion when the far left
website Daily Costs attacked Andrew, chastising him for using a
quote sex smear to attack Wiener. The goal was to

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thoroughly toxify the story, providing cover for journalists when they
ignored it the following week when the news cycle began,
which is exactly what some in the media admitted to doing.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
Well.

Speaker 14 (11:47):
We actually didn't cover it on Saturday, on Sunday, on Monday,
on Tuesday because there were a lot of red flags
to the story.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
On Sunday, the liberal New York Daily News published a
lengthy interview of the woman that received the genital tweet.
She claimed that she didn't know it Anthony Wiener and
that he'd never sent her anything inappropriate. Then the congressman's
spokesperson issued a statement claiming Wiener's account was hacked. They
thought that was enough. I mean, the woman receiving the

(12:16):
lude tweet said she didn't know Wiener. Wiener said he
was hacked, and the story originated from a place. The
media now loathed Breitbart News, But what they were all
missing was that Breitbart News led with the exact right angle.
This was not a sex scandal. It was a cyber
security story. A congressman had been allegedly hacked and soft

(12:38):
porn was being tweeted from his account to at least
one woman that was not his wife. That was a
story the media could not ignore. They were forced to
do some reporting. By the Monday Memorial Day weekend, CNN
ran with the brief segment.

Speaker 15 (12:53):
He came from Congressman Anthony Wiener's Twitter account. Over the weekend,
a photo of an anonymous man's bulging underwear. The leude picture,
immediately deleted from Wiener's account, was sent to this twenty
one year old Seattle college student, but also available to
the public to view on Twitter. Outside his New York
home Monday. Wiener, an outspoken liberal Democrat insisted to CNN

(13:16):
it was the work of a hacker.

Speaker 12 (13:17):
I was hacked.

Speaker 5 (13:18):
It happens to people, you move on.

Speaker 15 (13:20):
It's not clear who sent it. Wiener tried to brush
it off as a prank and a distraction.

Speaker 12 (13:25):
This is a prank, not a terribly creative one, and
it's a distraction.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Andrew Now, sensing that Anthony was evading, forced the media
to ask the next logical question.

Speaker 15 (13:37):
Andrew Breitbart, a conservative blogger whose Big government dot Com
first reported the story, suggested to CNN there should be
a quote forensic analysis to determine the veracity of Congressman
Wiener's hacking allegation, which certainly bears criminal applications. In fact,
spokesman for both the Capitol Police and the FBI TELCNN
they're not yet investigating this alleged hacking of a member

(14:00):
of Congress's Twitter account.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
That last part needed a follow up. If Wiener had
been hacked, why hadn't he contacted authorities. CNN's Dana Bash
and Ted Barrett led the way.

Speaker 15 (14:12):
Do you say that you were hacked, which is potentially
a crime, So why haven't you asked the Capitol Police
or any law enforcement to investigate.

Speaker 12 (14:20):
Look, this was a crank that I've now been talking
about for a couple of days. I'm not going to
allow it to decide what I talk.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
About for the next week or the next two weeks.

Speaker 15 (14:30):
With respect, you're here, which we which we appreciate, but
you're not answering the questions. Can you just say why
you haven't asked law enforcement to investigate what.

Speaker 12 (14:38):
You are leging as a You know, Dan, if I
was giving a speech to forty five thousand people and
someone in the back of the room threw a pie
or yelled out an insult, would I spend the next
two hours responding to that.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
No, I would get back. I would get back. This
is nothing I would get back. This is not that
situation I would get back. Well, why don't you do
what you want to do? The brief? Do you want
to do? The brief?

Speaker 10 (15:03):
Sir?

Speaker 5 (15:03):
From your Twitter account? Our lud photograph was sent to
sir answer the question was it from you?

Speaker 9 (15:10):
Sarah?

Speaker 5 (15:11):
Permit? Permit me? Do you guys want me to finish
my answer?

Speaker 10 (15:14):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (15:14):
This this answer? Did you send it or not?

Speaker 12 (15:18):
If I were giving a speech to forty five thousand
people and someone.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
In the back through a pie or yelled at an insult.

Speaker 12 (15:26):
I would not spend the next two hours of my
speech responding to that pie or that insult.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
If you I am on whose Dana? Let me let
me that you were, and that's a criminal potential, Dana, Dana,
let me.

Speaker 12 (15:38):
I'm gonna have to ask that we follow some rules here,
and one of those gonna be us questions I do
the answers that seemed reasonable.

Speaker 5 (15:43):
I'd love to get an answer that would be reasonable.

Speaker 12 (15:44):
Right right, question every reason you do the questions I
did answers in this check ass interrupts me?

Speaker 5 (15:49):
How about that? As a as the new rule of
the game.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
With Wiener now turning on journalist, the media frenzy began.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
Well five days after all this happened, Wiener has still
not reported the alleged tack to authorities.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Instead, he has hired a law firm to look into
what has happened.

Speaker 12 (16:09):
Let me just make about the debtline?

Speaker 5 (16:12):
Is it because you don't want to find out what?
Let me answer?

Speaker 10 (16:15):
Let me make it.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Can you say that if you're concerned about if there's
hacking going on with members of Congress?

Speaker 5 (16:19):
I mean that's a serious thing.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
I mean, aren't you concerned if somebody is looking at
your sensitive information.

Speaker 12 (16:24):
I'm going to return to working on the things I
care about. You know, I participated in the story a
couple of days now, given comments on it. This is
a distraction and I'm not going to let it distract me.

Speaker 16 (16:34):
If the capitable police are looking into it.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
Put out a statement about that. Over the last couple of.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Days, Now that the story had fully entered the news cycle,
the gatekeepers embarked on a second attack on the messenger.

Speaker 9 (16:44):
Rybart, the conservative clown who thinks hees a journalist what
a joke, has done another fraudulent story as usual.

Speaker 17 (16:53):
But it's also important to remember that the person who
has been pushing this story the most is Andrew Breitbart,
who has been consistently inaccurate.

Speaker 12 (17:03):
It is a right wing blogger who was pushing this,
and a pretty unreliable one of that which you know,
MoMA always said, consider the source.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Look, Breitbart is a proven liar.

Speaker 17 (17:12):
The person who reported it, Andrew Breitbart, has a history
of taking Democrats out of context and smearing them. I
am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt
because this originated with Andrew Breitbart.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
Why would anybody take this fool seriously.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
But it wasn't working. Just two days after Memorial Day
weekend ended, Wiener Gate had reached that rare status of
having a life of its own. The story had gone
completely nuclear. Every local cable and network news outlet was
now covering the story, and they wanted more. Anthony Weener
could no longer deflect his supporters in the media, could

(17:53):
no longer smear Breitbart News to spike the story. Wiener's
party affiliation and his connection to the Clintons would not
provide him the shield for which he'd become accustom. The
congressman was forced to meet with every major news organization
in an attempt to end the firestorm.

Speaker 18 (18:09):
And then he did something really stupid, which was he
did the kind of reverse Ginsburg.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
That's Joel Pollock, who was the editor in chief of
Breitbart News at the time.

Speaker 18 (18:16):
You know, the full Ginsburg as you appear on all
the Sunday shows in one day. What he did was
the reverse Ginsburg. He had all the major cable news
networks come to his office in Congress where he could
protest his innocence. And it was bizarre because none of
them really believed him.

Speaker 10 (18:32):
Just tell me definitively is that a photograph of you.

Speaker 12 (18:35):
We're trying to find out where that photograph came from
and whether it was manipulated, whether part of it might
be from something that was in my account.

Speaker 10 (18:43):
This is kind of strange.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
You can't tell me definitively that is a photo of
you or it is not a photo of you.

Speaker 12 (18:49):
Look, here's what I'm reluctant to say to you, definitively
anything about.

Speaker 7 (18:53):
This, even whether or not that's a photo.

Speaker 12 (18:55):
I'm reluctant to say definitively anything about this.

Speaker 18 (18:58):
But they went through the motions.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
Is this Twitter picture in question a picture of you?

Speaker 12 (19:04):
Well, let's remember this Twitter picture in question is a
hack or a prank that someone posted on my Twitter
page with someone else's name in it, who says she
never got it and doesn't know me, and I don't
know her.

Speaker 17 (19:14):
You definitively didn't send it, But you can't definitively say
whether it's you or not.

Speaker 5 (19:19):
I can definitively say that I did not send this.

Speaker 13 (19:22):
I think any normal person could say with certainty whether
a picture was a photo of.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
Them or not. Is this you? I can tell you this.
We have a firm that we've hired to I've seen it.

Speaker 12 (19:33):
It's I've seen it well firm that we've hired to
try to get to the bottom of it.

Speaker 18 (19:37):
And wolf Flitzer kept showing the picture of the great underwear.

Speaker 5 (19:40):
You wouldn't know if this is your underpats for a question?

Speaker 12 (19:43):
Is I appreciate you continuing to flash that at me?

Speaker 18 (19:46):
And it was just it was just hilarious. It became hilarious,
but also like it was, it was a train wreck
in motion.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
The situation only got worse for Wiener. His deflections had
now become a laughingstock.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
But that's not a picture of you, you know, I
can't say with certitude. I see only two options here.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
Either Anthony Wiener has too many photos of his crotch
to keep track, or Certitude is his nickname for his penus.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Why wouldn't Weener answer the question? Was it or was
it not?

Speaker 5 (20:18):
His bulge?

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Everyone was dumbfounded that he couldn't or wouldn't respond, and
perhaps most importantly, people wondered why he hadn't yet reported
the hacking to the authorities. But as the media circus
was exploding, Breitbart News was getting closer to the answer.

(20:41):
During the initial hours of Wienergate, when Alex Marlowe and
that small group of editors were deciding on whether or
not to publish the story, Andrew Breitbart's business partner Larry Solov,
remembered that someone had sent them a tip about a
week earlier, claiming to have compromising pictures of Anthony Weener. Again,
Joe Pollock.

Speaker 18 (20:59):
We had a tip email on the website from a
guy who said that he had a friend who had
developed a relationship with Anthony Weener online. And Andrew and
I both got this email, and we were talking to
each other about it, and we agreed that we were
not interested in salacious personal stories about members of Congress,

(21:22):
that we did not want to be that kind of website,
and that's actually not who we wanted to be, you know,
personally or politically. We don't want to bring people down
over private matters. But we thought we had to listen
to this person to understand what the story was. And
there was a conversation that happened, if I remember correctly,

(21:43):
with the source, but nothing really came of it.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
In those very first conference calls about whether or not
to publish the story, Larry Solov reminded everyone of this tip,
Andrew jumped on the phone to try and contact the
Texas tipster that was only able to get a hold
of him briefly the day after publishing the first wienergate story.
The tipster said that he wouldn't be able to connect
for a few days, but then went dark on Andrew.

(22:07):
So as the story was blowing up, the Breitbart team
was working behind the scenes to try and get in
contact with the Texas woman. The tipster referenced. It was
important to them for a simple reason. Again, John Malty,
and I.

Speaker 6 (22:20):
Remember the main site that came after us was those
scumbags and Media Eye, and there's still scumbags over there,
and they were attacking our story and claiming that it
was a lie and we'd just made it all up,
and that we maybe we had hacked Anthony Wiener.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
So the Breitbart team was on the hunt for this
Texas woman to clear their name because if someone else
came forward with proof that Anthony Weener sent her lute
images as well, the preposterous notion that Breitbart News hacked
the congressman would come to an end.

Speaker 18 (22:52):
Andrew and I, meanwhile, we're frantic to find the source
of the story. So we had actually remember, we'd spoken
to the source a week before this random tweet event happened.
So we were trying to get hold of this because
we knew that the ultimate proof one way or the other,
you know that is, unless you could go into Wiener's
system or whatever, which none of us could do. The

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only proof was going to be whether the source came forward.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
It wasn't until exactly one week after Wienergate first kicked
off that they'd finally track down the Texas woman. Shortly
after talking to Andrew, she sent him pictures that Congressman
Weener forwarded to her, and this time the images included
Anthony's face within the frame of the photo. Wiener was toast.
As Andrew was en route to New York City to

(23:37):
answer the swarm of media requests from this firestorm, Breitbart
News began slowly publishing these pictures, dripping them out one
by one.

Speaker 18 (23:45):
Andrew started releasing them, I think to get Wiener to
admit that we weren't the hackers.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Essentially, Anthony Weiener could no longer claim ignorance. Breitbart News
had the goods. As Andrew landed, his phone was blowing
up with images from the heads of practice, gleek every
major network and cable news program in existence. Andrew had

(24:15):
a scheduled interview with the CBS reporter at his hotel,
but to his surprise, on his arrival, the reporter was
a no show. Where was she? Andrew checked his email
and learned that the reporter had to rush to the
Sheraton just a few blocks away. Apparently, Anthony Wiener had
announced a last minute press conference, so instinctively, Andrew began

(24:35):
walking to the Sheraton. He arrived to a hall packed
with journalists waiting for Anthony Wiener to step up to
the podium.

Speaker 18 (24:46):
So Andrew got over there and stood at the back
of the room, and a reporter from New York won
to forget her name, but she told Andrew to go
to the front.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
The reporter's name was Marsha Kramer from a local CBS
news affiliate. By the time Andrew walked to the front
of the crowd journalists the country had been captivated by Wienergate,
so every significant media outlet in America was in the room.
As words spread across social media that Anthony Wiener was
about to make an announcement, people like yours truly began

(25:16):
turning their TV deals to their trusted news station, and
what happened next went down in media history again Alex Marlowe.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
And somehow Andrew got himself onto Wiener's podium and started
to take questions from the media.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
I'm here coincidentally, I just arrived at LaGuardia because of
media requests, and as I got into my hotel, I'm
Andrew Bridpark by the way.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
In the moment, Andrew thought he was only speaking to
the room, but he wasn't. When Andrew stepped to the microphone,
the broadcast networks went live to the world.

Speaker 18 (25:55):
You're watching CNN and they cut to this press conference.
There's Andrew at the podium, and everybody flipped out, you know,
like what is he doing? I mean, you know, even
within Brightbrod, like nobody knew what the heck could happen.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
And then, of course I remember being at home and
Andrew taking the stage at Anthony Wieder's press conference, which
is just one of the most amazing things I'd ever seen.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
I've seen a lot of this congressman's body at this
and he's a very good shape.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
And it was a surprise to us that Andrew had
jumped onto the podium in front of international television cameras.

Speaker 18 (26:31):
In my mind, I thought he had stepped on the
stage in a sense to spike football. But that's not
what had happened at all. And it turned out that
he had been told by the journalists while he was
standing at the back of the room to go on
stage and explain what had happened, and he did. He
explained it, and he wanted apologies for everybody.

Speaker 4 (26:51):
I want to hear the truth. I want to hear
the truth from Congressman Winner. Quite frankly, I'd like an
apology for him being complicit. And they blame the messenger strategy.

Speaker 10 (27:01):
That was clear.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
What happened seventy two hours in Palm Springs with your
family is excruciating when you are being challenged. Andrew, why
aren't you on vacation, Why won't you get off the
phone because I'm being accused of being the hacker against
the congressman. He said nothing, He allowed for that to go.
His minions perpetuated that false, malicious.

Speaker 10 (27:22):
Meme, and then he went on CNN to attack me.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
I feel he was complicit, and he kept talking about
how everyone was saying I'm lying, and name one lie.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
The media says, Breitbart lies, Briightbart lies, Bridbart lies, Bridebart lies.

Speaker 10 (27:36):
Give me one example of approvable lie.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
One one, journalists one put your reputation on the line here,
one provable lie.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
And it was one of the few moments I tend
to keep my emotions in check, particularly at work. I
was jumping for joy. I could not have been more thrilled.
It was literally best moments of my life.

Speaker 10 (27:58):
That's enough, Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
And that's really when Andrew's legend was I think solidified forever.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
All of the lies that the media told about Andrew,
about Breitbart News were put to bed. In that one moment,
the world witnessed their vindication. What came next was the
icing on the cake. As Anthony Weener stepped to the
same podium that Andrew left just a few minutes earlier.

Speaker 5 (28:27):
Thank you very much for being here in good afternoon, dud.

Speaker 12 (28:30):
I'd like to take this time to clear up some
of the questions that have been raised over the past
ten days or so and take full responsibility for my
actions at the outset. I'd like to make it clear
that I had made terrible mistakes that I've hurt the
people I care about the most, and I'm deeply sorry.
I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents,

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my friends and supporters.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
And the media.

Speaker 12 (28:56):
Last Friday night, I tweeted a photograph of myself that
I intended to send us a direct message as part
of a joke to a woman in siah Off. Once
I realized I had posted to Twitter, I panicked. I
took it down and said that I had been hacked.
I apologize standard Brypart, I apologize to the many other
members of the media.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
That I misled.

Speaker 12 (29:15):
I apologize first and foremost to my wife and to
my family.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
In the moment, he refused to resign, but a week
and a half later he did the inevitable.

Speaker 12 (29:27):
I hoped to be able to continue the work that
the citizens of my district elected me to do, to
fight for the middle class, and no struggling to make it. Unfortunately,
the distraction that I have created has made that impossible.
So today I am announcing my resignation from Congress.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yeah, it was a proud moment for anyone connected to
Breitbart News. No one but Andrew could have forced the
media to cover Wienergate, but his employee number one had
reason to bask in the moment as well.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Even though and Andrew gets most of the credit, I'm
very proud that I was very audamant that the hack
tweet like that was one of the first times I
was really vocal on a big editorial decision like that.

Speaker 7 (30:11):
The fact they tweeted that he was hacked means we
have to go with it.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
The hack was a critical insight that allowed Breitbart News
to publish the story and shielded the organization from the
kind of incoming attacks they'd fielded for over the past
year and a half. Andrew Breitbart was already a conservative
media legend, but Wienergate thrust him in his news organization
into the international spotlight. Breitbart News had arrived, Its influence

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had now been solidified. Over the next nine months, Andrew
enjoyed the victory. He promoted Alex Marload a managing editor,
and the company began a site redesign. They were gearing
up for the upcoming twenty twelve election cycle. Everything was
coming together for Andrew and his growing news organization, and
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So after vindicating himself with the Wienergate story, everything was
coming together for Andrew and his growing news organization, and
he had an incredible team. On the last day in

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February twenty twelve, the heads of Breitbart's editorial staff were
in Los Angeles again Joel Pollock.

Speaker 18 (32:36):
All of us had seen Andrew that day, that is,
all of us in LA. We were preparing for the
launch of Breitbart dot com, the new twenty four hour
news website. Just a few days later.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
John Nolt even flew in from his new home in
North Carolina.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
And we had a three day meeting because we were
going to reboot that there was going to be a
new launch at the site bright Bart two point zero,
which is basically pretty close to what you see now.

Speaker 18 (32:59):
And we'd had the whole editorial staff in town for
a week to go over all the new software and
all the new rules and all the things we're going
to be doing.

Speaker 6 (33:09):
And right before I left, Andrew and I had about
a ninety minute conversation. He pulled me aside and we
just walked around the neighborhood where the office was and talked.
It was really a lovely conversation.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
At the end of the workday, the editorial staff dispersed.
NULTI flew home, and Andrew went about doing the types
of things that Andrew did.

Speaker 18 (33:29):
And I think he took time off in the afternoon
to go to the gym, and he had a new vestpa.
He was writing around town, so a lot of people
saw him around town that day, and in the evening
he was having a drink. I think he had a
glass of wine and met a liberal guy at a
bar and the two of them started having a political conversation.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Later that night, a Texas based Breitbart News reporter Brandon Darby,
was talking to Andrew when Brandon's girlfriend called, so he
jumped off the phone to talk to her.

Speaker 16 (33:54):
And then when I called Andrew back, a woman answered
his phone and she identified herself as a police officer.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
That's Brandon.

Speaker 16 (34:04):
And I was like, why do you have my friend's phone?
And she was like, well, what is your friend's name?
And I said, well, did he lose his phone or something?
A guy named Andrew. She's like Andrew who? And I
was like, wait, who is this? Like can I talk
to my friend please? And she was like, well, you're

(34:25):
not going to be able to do that, but I
can't talk about it. Can you just tell me who
he is? And then right at that time, he told
me to hold on him. And I heard the EMS
workers arrive and I could hear what they were saying,
and I told her his name and his wife's name,

(34:45):
and I just broke down because I heard what they
were saying, you know, about him. And so I called
Mary so loud, and he didn't answer, and I was her.
I was just you know, devastated and not. It was
such a shock. And then I called.

Speaker 18 (35:05):
Joel and so Brandon called me, and I had just
gotten into bed. It was twelve fifteen on March first,
and I had just you know, my wife and I
worked pretty late. We had a one month old newborn,
and you know, things unfolded from there.

Speaker 16 (35:20):
And as Joel was trying to get me to calm
down so he could understand what I was saying, Larry
called me back and I was telling Larry what happened,
and then he told me that not to worry, that
things are probably okay, and then he said, hell none
soon he's calling Andrew's wife, and then he clicked back
over to me, and it was very obvious that that's

(35:45):
what happened. He had to go to the hospital, and
he asked me not to say anything anywhere. So I
just kind of laid there all night hurting, and then
at about four or five in the morning, he called
me and he was like, hey, we lost Andrew.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
I learned about the middle of the night, three thirty
in the morning, got phone call about it, and I
remember flopping on the bed and being completely distraught, but
I didn't know how to process it. Also, and I
hadn't had a death like that someone who is that
close to me die, particularly in their early forties.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Andrew's passing hit the news the next morning.

Speaker 19 (36:25):
Conservative commentator and activist Andrew Breitbart died early this morning
in Los Angeles.

Speaker 14 (36:31):
Breitbart was certainly a driving for us in the Teeth
Party movement, as well as a very influential political voice
on the Internet, heading up his own website after helping
to run Drudge Report and launch the Huffing and post.

Speaker 20 (36:43):
A statement on his website said that he died unexpectedly
of natural causes.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Andrew was only a mentor to Alex. The relationship was
much more personal.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Our families were even close. My wife tutored as kids,
incredible wife, Suzie, who's one of the greatest people on earth.

Speaker 7 (37:06):
It's just.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
You can't imagine what he could have done with another
thirty or forty years. It was so it's so unfathomable
of a loss, and the surprise, the shock was so overwhelming.

(37:32):
I could immediately feel myself go into a bit of denial,
and I really wanted to retreat into work. And for me,
I wanted to help right away.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Whether he was coping with the shank or desire to
immediately help Andrew, or all the above. Alex found solace
by bearing himself into brightbart dot com, regularly working twenty
hour days to deal with the loss.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
It was an interesting thing for me because I don't
recognized that the way I responded to it, with the
element of denial and wanting to just work. And then
when I let my guard down a Friday night, then
the waterworks would start coming. There's nothing like it that
I've ever experienced, because you feel out of control, and

(38:23):
I think that's why I wanted to work. But I
used his website personally just the way I doubt what
it was. I worked on his website, and this is
when I really became a front page editor.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
At the time of Andrew's passing, Joel Pollock was the
editor in chief and Alex was the managing editor. Many
began to doubt that the news organization would be able
to continue, but Andrew assembled an incredible team.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
And Shapiro was there, Joel Pollack was there, Steve Bannon
was there, Larry Solov was the leader of all of us,
and I was there, and I think Dana was there
at the time.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
That's Dana Loshi.

Speaker 7 (38:57):
There was all these really bright people, and so Peter
was there.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
That's Peter Schweizer.

Speaker 7 (39:02):
And Joel really g ravitated.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Towards the writing and the reporting and the story editing,
and I really gravitated towards the headlines and the layout.
So even though I was twenty six at the time,
I had been a front page obsessive since I started
reading the Drudge Report on a daily basis when I
was in the tenth grade. So this was this was
my playing center field for the Yankees, and I got
a chance to do this right away, and I didn't

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want to leave the front page.

Speaker 7 (39:27):
So that's just what I did.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Like I could barely get in the car because I
just wanted to sit there and make sure the front
page was perfect. It was agonizing for me to drive
from Studio City into West LA in our offices because
I just wanted to be on the.

Speaker 7 (39:40):
Front page bright bart dot com.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
And that was where I'd already learned a ton about
how to write a great headline from Andrew, and this
is where I really got to use some of those
skills at this crisis moment.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
In the tense months that followed, everyone gravitated towards their strengths.
Alex focused on the front page at the website, and
Joel stepped out to protect Andrew's legacy from a media
that was looking to redefine him.

Speaker 9 (40:08):
The mainstream media covered this.

Speaker 21 (40:11):
In the white supremist groups that exactly.

Speaker 5 (40:14):
That I mean, I'm not asking you know, I mean it.

Speaker 9 (40:18):
Why don't you just ask the question? Why don't you
ask the question without knowing a thing about me or
what I believe? This is typical mainstream media, challenging all.

Speaker 7 (40:26):
I'm looking at I'm just talking white guys judge it.

Speaker 9 (40:28):
So you judge it? Are you're judging me?

Speaker 10 (40:31):
I am, Yeah.

Speaker 18 (40:32):
And we had to manage through very very difficult times.
A lot of our enemies and we have many came
out and basically wrote us off. You know, the next
eighteen months were the hardest working ones I've ever experienced.
I've never worked harder in my life than I did
during those eighteen months. And I was editor in chief

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for those for those eighteen months, and we just fought
back with everything we had against the attempts to crush
us and to crush Andrew's memory and to turn him
into something he wasn't. And we really fought to keep
that flame alive.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
But as a result of being tested, the core team
came out stronger, more focused than ever on Andrew's mission.
As the attacks began to settle down, the strengths of
the editorial team became clear. Joel was an incredible writer
and reporter, and Alex had a nose for the news.

Speaker 18 (41:24):
Alex Marlow was really the best person to be editor
in chief of the website and is the best person.
He's far better than I am at understanding the news
cycle and understanding how news works, how news moves. And
that's not because of his journalistic training. It's just because
of his instincts, and it's because he learned from the master.
I mean, he learned from Andrew before anybody did. And
Andrew learned from Matt Drudge, and so Alex has a

(41:47):
kind of sense of the landscape that probably five people
in the world have and that's been a massive, huge
asset for us. And it's one of the reasons that
you know, I really I trust his judgment, you know,
I basically, you know, would do whatever he told me
to do, because he's got that kind of command of

(42:11):
the news and foresight into what will become a story,
what won't become a story, what will last, what will
continue to be credible. He doesn't necessarily dive into all
the details, and that's where I can help. But he
has a sense of how a story feels, and you
can't really replicate that. So he's done an incredible job

(42:34):
in terms of creating this news website and steering it
through challenges that, in their own way, were even greater
than losing the founder of the company.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Alex was ready to put everything he'd been quietly absorbing
into action. His years immersed in Hollywood, his time watching
the far left in Berkeley, the countless hours combing through
the comments section, gauging the temperature of the people, the
lessons he'd learned from his mentor Andrew about the news cycle,
how their enemies would attack, what stories would resonate, what

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issues mattered. At the young age of twenty seven, Alex
Marlow was already a media veteran and was now ready
to take over the editorial driver's seat tragically vacated by
one of the greatest media minds that ever lived. In
October twenty thirteen, it became official. Alex Marlow became editor
in chief of Breitbart News. But like his first media

(43:26):
addiction in Matt Drudge, Alex kept a relatively low profile.
The face of the company was left to others like
Steve Bannon.

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Speaker 1 (43:51):
Welcome back to Red Pilled America. In October twenty thirteen,
Alex Marlow became editor in chief of Breitbart News, but
like his first media addiction in Matt Drudge, Alex kept
a relatively low profile. The face of the company was
left to others like Steve Bannon. With the newly structured
team set, they started taking on the GOP establishment.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
One of the key things that Breitbart had been guiding
us was after twenty twelve when the Republicans put out
this autopsy of why Romney lost.

Speaker 22 (44:22):
When Republicans lost in November, it was a wake up call,
and in response, I initiated the most public and most
comprehensive post election review and the history of any national party.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
And the conclusion was, we need more amnesty and we
need more concessions to illegal aliens. And that was their
main conclusion. That will never win again unless we amnesty
a bunch of people and start giving favor treatment to people.

Speaker 7 (44:50):
Came into the country illegally.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
And our audience was not appreciative of that coming from
the elites who had just gotten their asses handed to
them by Barack Obama, who is not particularly popular at
that moment. And Romney seemed like a very capable candidate
and it was relatively speaking, a pretty substantial win by Obama,

(45:12):
and we're getting told by the same people who blew
it we now need amnesty. There was a big shift
at that moment. That was a crucial moment.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
They saw illegal immigration as a core issue in the
coming twenty sixteen election and began focusing resources on the
largely unreported border crisis. Their editor in chief of Breitbart Texas,
Brandon Darby, was one of the only American journalists uncovering
the truth at our southern border.

Speaker 16 (45:38):
So I decided to do for border patrol agents. But
Andrew had done to me, setting out to make them haul,
to make sure they had a voice, to make sure
that they had political power and could defend themselves, right,
I guess unfair attacks.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
We published something called the Cartel Chronicles in Spanish and English,
where we believe that we're the voice of the Mexican
people who are victimized by the cartels, and people were
not telling the full story of what's happening south of
our border and coming up to our border.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
In early June twenty fourteen, their border investigations uncovered the
appalling conditions in Texas border processing centers. Obama was keeping
kids and what Democrats today call cages.

Speaker 18 (46:24):
The first and most important stories on everything happening in
immigration at that time were broken by Breibart, all of
them from the kids showing up at the border in
Texas in twenty fourteen, where Breitbart Texas and Brandon Darby
broke that story and all the major news networks had
to use our photographs.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
And we've been tracking this in the way Obama was
dealing with it, by the way erecting cages and giving
people mylar blankets which looked like tinfoil. We had broken
those stories to.

Speaker 18 (46:54):
The protests against the relocation of some of those migrant
kids into other communities. We covered that.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Instead of backing a so called bipartisan amnesty bill known
as the Gang of Eight, Brettbart News took an anti
establishment route. They wanted to send a message to the
GOP by targeting the reelection of House Majority Leader Eric Canter.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
You look at the AP numbers tonight, Brett, and this
was a fairly resounding defeat for Eric Counter, who many
thought might be the next Speaker.

Speaker 5 (47:25):
Of the House.

Speaker 7 (47:26):
Trice, This is a huge, huge moment.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
The Republican congressman who was next in line to become
Speaker of the House, was stunningly defeated because of his
support for amnesty.

Speaker 18 (47:36):
And we held the line on that fight in a
way nobody else did. It was basically Breitbart and Jeff Sessions.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Breitbart News was carving out an America First framework on
issues before the term was even a mantra. On the right,
they saw China and our trade policies as a threat
to the American working class and national security. Like their founder,
they saw the media and the establishment of both parties
as a threat to Middle America, and their coverage reflected
those ethos. So in June sixteenth, twenty fifteen, arrived, it

(48:08):
didn't take long for Alex Marlow to see that a
New York real estate moguls presidential platform appeared to align
almost perfectly with the audience of Breitbart News.

Speaker 8 (48:18):
Whoa that is some group of people thousands.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
So it all started with the infamous speech right after
the Escalator where he talked about how there are some
unsavory people coming over the border, which is objectively true.
He used more colorful language than unsavory.

Speaker 8 (48:38):
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
They're not sending you. They're not sending you.

Speaker 8 (48:46):
They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're
bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime,
their rapists, and some I assume are good people.

Speaker 7 (49:01):
Us your ideas.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
No one else is talking about. The media wants it
just to be that. It called the personality.

Speaker 8 (49:08):
It's not just that we don't have victories anymore. We
used to have victories, but we don't have them.

Speaker 5 (49:15):
When was the last time.

Speaker 8 (49:18):
Anybody saw us beating let's say, China in a trade deal?
They kill us. I beat China all the.

Speaker 5 (49:27):
Time, all the time.

Speaker 7 (49:30):
So it wasn't just a persona. It was the ideas.
And these are the ideas.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
We've been tracking at Bright part for a very long time.
And I caught the Trump wave very early.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
The first debate showed that Fox News was gunning to
eliminate Trump.

Speaker 20 (49:45):
Mister Trump, one of the things people love about you
is you speak your mind and you don't use a
politician's filter. However, that is not without its downsides, in
particular when it comes to women. You've called women you
don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.

Speaker 5 (50:04):
Your Twitter account.

Speaker 8 (50:05):
Only Rosio O'donald, No.

Speaker 18 (50:09):
It wasn't.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
It became apparent to Alex pretty quickly that Breitbart News
is probably going to be the only media outlet that
was going to give Trump a fair shot.

Speaker 20 (50:21):
Thank you for the record. It was well beyond Rossios.
I'm sure your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about
women's looks. You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice
it would be a pretty picture to see her on
her knees. Does that sound you like the temperament of
a man we should elect as president? And how will
you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who is likely

(50:43):
to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of
the war on women.

Speaker 8 (50:48):
I think the big problem this country has is being
politically correct.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
I've been chaired, so this is why I'm emphasizing so
much the importance of Trump's answers, not just his persona,
which of course we're going to gravitate towards a candidate
who's going to kick the media's ass, but the ideas
he was espousing were almost entirely in lockstep with our audience.

Speaker 11 (51:15):
Mister Trump, it has not escaped anybody's noticed that you
say that the Mexican government. The Mexican government is sending criminals, rapists,
drug dealers across the border. Governor Bush has called those
remarks quote extraordinarily ugly.

Speaker 5 (51:33):
I'd like you, you're right next to.

Speaker 11 (51:35):
Him, tell us talk to him directly and say how
you respond to that. And and you have repeatedly said
that you have evidence that the Mexican government is doing this,
but that you have evidence you have refused or declined
to share. Why not use this first Republican presidential debate
to share your proof with the American people.

Speaker 8 (51:56):
So if it weren't for me, you wouldn't even be
talking about illegal immigris, Chris, you wouldn't.

Speaker 5 (52:04):
Even be talking about it.

Speaker 8 (52:06):
This was not a subject that was on anybody's mind
until I brought it up at my announcement, and I said,
Mexico is sending Except the reporters because they're a very
dishonest lot, generally speaking in the world of politics, they
didn't cover my statement the way I said it. The
fact is, since then, many killings, murders, crime, drugs pouring

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across the border. Are money going out and the drugs
coming in.

Speaker 5 (52:35):
And I said, we need to build a wall.

Speaker 7 (52:38):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
The fact that Trump's persona was someone who was the
bull in the china shop.

Speaker 7 (52:47):
We needed that. This is part of why Andrew was
so effective.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Andrew was really cut from the same cloth. Now I'm
not trying to say that I know what Andrew would
have thought exactly about Trump, but.

Speaker 7 (52:56):
Andrew knew that we needed a bull in the china shop.
Andrew was that bull. And then Andrew passed away.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Now Trump, Trump is that bull because Trump goes out
and he says things, not just things that people need
to hear that aren't hearing. He says it in such
a way that forces.

Speaker 7 (53:12):
Them to cover it. And that was Breitbart dot Com
and nutshell. That was what we wanted.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
Sitting next to Andrew Breitbart hearing his thoughts, Alex must
have seen in Trump what Andrew had been advocating for years.
A politician skilled in the communication of pop culture.

Speaker 23 (53:29):
The conservative movement proper did not embrace Ronald Reagan initially,
but it eventually came to accept him as the standard
bearer of conservatism. He was successful less because he carried
conservative principles, but because he came from Hollywood and he
understood the importance of communication and pop culture.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
As the primary progressed, the attacks against Breitbart News began
to ramp up. But it wasn't just the left that
was coming at them. It was coming from the right
as well. Even a former employee who left to expand
his own website piled on attacking his former employer for
its election coverage.

Speaker 20 (54:07):
Ben, why did you resign?

Speaker 24 (54:09):
I resigned because the fact is that Breitbart has unfortunately
become a Trump provda site.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
But to supporters of the real estate mogul, the attacks
appeared hollow, even calculated.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
We had these America First values that we were framing
our coverage. We've always been open about that, and Trump
was hitting these marks, and the other candidates weren't, and
the media kept telling us that we're Trump provdut.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Of course, the irony was that every media outlet had
already selected a candidate as well. Fox News wanted Marco Rubio,
the Daily Wire and other smaller conservative outlets wanted Ted Cruz,
and the entire mainstream media was colluding with the DNC
to rig the election for Hillary. A CNN contributor had
even slipped her campaign debate questions. Yet somehow Breitbart News

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was the only one being hit for appearing to align
with a candidate.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
If you look at the pri i'mary through the lens
of someone who is a populist, a nationalist, and who
detests the establishment media in the establishment of both political parties,
Trump is your dream candidate. So the positive Trump coverage

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was simply because he was in line with what our
readers wanted, almost precisely at an insane level.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
The attacks against the new media pioneer reached a stratospheric
level when the Trump campaign hired Breitbart New CEO Steve Bannon.

Speaker 17 (55:41):
A lot of people, including many conservatives, are concerned that
Steve Bannon, who is the CEO of the Trump campaign
and the chief executive of Breitbart News, that he used
Breitbart News to, in their view, the view of conservatives,
the view of Republicans, to mainstream white supremacist views, anti
Semitic views, racist view use.

Speaker 13 (56:03):
Breitbart dot Com, the website shared by Steve Bannon, has
proudly led the charge. Last month, Bannon told mother Jones,
we are the platform for the alt right. Now Bannon
is the Trump campaign CEO, and Clinton is seizing on
the connection.

Speaker 24 (56:17):
Imagine that one of the worst people you know is
heading up a presidential campaign. That's pretty much you know
where I'm at this morning. And again that's not a
commentary on what it means for the Trump campaign, but
it is a commentary on the perverse relationship between Breitbart
News and Trump, and the perverse relationship between Steve Bannon
and the readers of Breitbart who were informed for months
that Breitbart was not on the Trump train, only to

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be revealed later that than not only were they on
the Trump train, but basically they were in direct.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
Codes Breiitbart News was rising influence not because they were
pro Trump, but instead because they were pursuing issues that
directly impacted Middle America. They were pursuing the truth about immigration,
about China, about the legacy media, about our trade deficit.
Trump just happened to be the vehicle willing to deliver
the truth on these issues. As the election year progressed,

(57:05):
Breitbart News, with Alex Marlowe in the editorial driver's seat,
was driving the entire news cycle. This scrappy organization that
grew out of a basement in Lalla Land had grown
to an unimaginable level of influence. But as election Day approached,
they couldn't have known that their dogged pursuit of truth
was about to pay off for Donald Trump in an
unexpected way.

Speaker 6 (57:27):
Eleven days to the election, the FBI director informing lawmakers
he is reviewing new emails related to the Clinton email investigation.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Just days before Americans were to vote, FBI Director James
Comy reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails. The news
was shocking, but what was perhaps more stunning was the
reason why.

Speaker 25 (57:47):
Lad we've confirmed that this investigation into Hillary Clinton's use
of a private email server has been reopened after investigators
in a separate case received or seized devices during their
investigation into Anthony Wiener and whether or not he was
allegedly sexting with an underage girl. Now they see those
devices in order to determine whether or not he was
indeed communicating and what he was communicating. But on those devices,

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apparently they also found emails that are related to Hillary
Clinton's use of a private server.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
The news was a bombshell Coomy would exonerate Hillary for
this new batch of emails just days before the election,
but with the race closer than reported in swing states,
the turn of events had likely already taken its toll.
On election day, Trump paid his respects to Breitbart News
by granting an interview to its editor in chief.

Speaker 10 (58:35):
We have Donald J.

Speaker 26 (58:36):
Trump on the line, Republican candidate for president. Good morning,
mister Trump, Good morning. You're on Bright Barneys Daily with
Alex Marlowe. A pleasure to speak to you. So let's
talk about where we stand right now. You guys have
been rallying late into the night. How much energy are
these crowds giving you?

Speaker 8 (58:54):
Unbelievable energy they had. We had to have close to
thirty thousand people in Michigan at one o'clock in the
morning because you know, we edited on to the end.

Speaker 12 (59:02):
We're doing great in Michigan.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
And just a few hours later, Trump shocked the world.

Speaker 21 (59:07):
There's the big board, the twenty electoral votes from the
state of Pennsylvania. We just got new metrics in Donald J.
Trump is the President of the United States. Elect He
won't be inaugurated until January, but the word has just
reached the New York Hilton.

Speaker 5 (59:27):
Donald J.

Speaker 21 (59:28):
Trump, the son of a queen's millionaire, defied all conventional
wisdom and all expectations.

Speaker 5 (59:36):
Thank you, Thank you very much.

Speaker 16 (59:38):
A living.

Speaker 8 (59:41):
Sorry to keep you waiting. Complicated business, complicated.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
In the weeks and months that followed, Brightbart News was
rightfully given credit as the me organization that carried Trump
across the finish line to his unbelievable win, an accolade
that even Hillary Clinton bestowed on the new media pioneer,
albeit in a roundabout way. You see in the litany
of excuses Hillary used to explain away her defeat, one

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was backed by an expert analysis. In his autopsy of
the election, Fame, liberal data analyst Nate Silver credited James
Comy's reopening of the Clinton email investigation as the one
event that measurably tipped the election in Trump's favor. It
was a conclusion that Hillary Clinton also.

Speaker 20 (01:00:35):
Shared, What's the biggest cause of your loss?

Speaker 19 (01:00:38):
Well, I think the determining factor was the intervention by
Comy on October twenty eighth. I mean, as I write
in the book, and I could have put much more
into the book, and independent observers like Nate Silver and
others say yes, but for that intervention, I would have won.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Of course, Breitbart News set off the chain of events
that led to Comy's actions by seeking the truth in
the Wienergate hacking story. We know this because what led
to the reopening of the case was a minor that
was curious about Representative Wiener's behavior. Behavior first uncovered by
Breitbart News.

Speaker 19 (01:01:13):
How did you first come into contact with Anthony Wiener?

Speaker 27 (01:01:16):
It was through a direct message on the application Twitter.
I just sent him a nice message, just hello. I'm
a huge fan.

Speaker 7 (01:01:26):
Why Anthony Wiener?

Speaker 27 (01:01:27):
I knew that Hillary Clinton would be running for president
in the year twenty sixteen, and I wanted to see
if Anthony was still up to the same antics.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Which leads us back to the question how did Breitbart
News become so influential. They did it by fearlessly seeking
the truth, then delivering that truth unvarnished to the American people.
By relentlessly seeking the truth on immigration, trade, China, the
legacy media, and yes, the hack king of a congressman,

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Breitbart News planted seeds in the minds of Americans that
would eventually grow to take down Hillary Clinton at the
ballot box, and as a result, changed the course of history. Today,
Breitbart News looks poised to reach new heights of influence
on American culture. No one could have guessed that this
small team of rebels first formed in a Los Angeles

(01:02:25):
basement would have survived the loss of their visionary founder,
a new media pioneer who shepherd it in an era
of citizen journalism unlike anything before it. But they not
only survived, Breitbart News became an information powerhouse that dunked
on the mainstream media to take the lead at the buzzer.
And they did it with a young man named Alex

(01:02:45):
Marlow at point running the playbook, a man that carried
the weapons crafted by Andrew Breitbart to an entirely new plateau,
and all along the way battling a relentless establishment monster
hell bent on dictating rather than listening. Only time will
tell where lux Marlow will take Breitbart News from here,
but you can rest assured his team of renegade journalists

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will be searching for the truth in places the media
dares not go.

Speaker 18 (01:03:13):
Mister Vice President, are you aware that you're misquoting Donald
Chunk and Charlottesville?

Speaker 9 (01:03:17):
You never called neo Nazis very fine people.

Speaker 12 (01:03:19):
Well, he called all those folks who walked out of
that they were neo Nazis shouting.

Speaker 9 (01:03:24):
The fat but he said specifically that he was The.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
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